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At a #Cirencester site, Joe has uncovered this pristine #BronzeAge spearhead. They're associated with Middle Bronze Age activity (1550-1250 BC), meaning this is well over 3,000 years old! More info once it's back at the office and analysed 👌 #Archaeology #Prehistoric #Cotswolds

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Incredible 6th-century glass bead, discovered while carefully recording an #AngloSaxon grave. Beads like this often attached to sword pommels and did double-duty as amulets, thought to ward off injuries or death (so only sensible to keep one next to your weaponry...) #archaeology

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Excavation of partially disturbed, densely crowded graves in Weyhill, #Hampshire , revealed evidence of violence, punishment, and disarticulated bone from 124 individuals. It was quickly apparent that this 10th-14th century cemetery was far from normal... Our Human Remains…

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Casual #FridayFind ... Just a Middle #BronzeAge spearhead... Really no big deal... *𝘾𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙮 𝙖 𝙗𝙞𝙜 𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙡* Intriguingly, found at an excavation we currently believe to be largely Roman... She's interesting 𝘢𝘯𝘥 beautiful... 😍 #HumbleBrag #Archaeology #Herefordshire

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Gorgeous barbed and tanged arrowhead, has to be a casual #FridayFind 😏 Associated with an Early #BronzeAge ring ditch (possibly the ploughed-out remains of a barrow) it dates to c. 1500-2500 BC. Always a marvel to find these ancient objects so beautifully preserved! #Archaeology

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#CASiteTeam uncovered this beautiful buckle at a recent #Oxfordshire site, in a high-status #AngloSaxon grave, near the individual's pelvis. It bears three inlaid stones, possibly garnets. We hope to share more on the site once analysis is able to resume! #FridayFind #Archaeology

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A sherd of #Roman pottery, bearing the ghost of a 2,000-year-old fern. The leaf pattern is likely unintentional – the fern sticking to the pot as its clay dried before firing, then burning off in the kiln, and leaving this pleasingly aesthetic impression! #Archaeology #Gloucester

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2 years

Another gratuitous shot of the kiln.

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A beautifully preserved, 2000-year-old calf skeleton, excavated in #Suffolk . This calf is one of many animals discovered during excavation, including several #IronAge dogs. Bone grouping and positioning suggests they were buried whole, with connective tissues intact. #Archaeology

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Roman bricks and a tegula (roof tile) from the #Roman demolition rubble of the #Boxford Villa! Displaying the paw prints of a cat and dog 😊 One for all those who are #WorkingFromHome , and whose Cat Supervisors are gleefully stepping on their keyboards... #Archaeology #FridayFind

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(1/3) These beautiful #AngloSaxon disc brooches originate from a site that revealed features dating from the Iron Age through to the 3rd or 4th century and beyond. We carefully excavated over seventy Anglo Saxon burials, some containing high-status grave goods... #Archaeology

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We’re looking for field archaeologists of all levels to join any of our four offices — whether you’d be a trainee, or you’re already an experienced Senior Project Officer. Check out #CASiteTeam to see the archaeology you’d get to work on, then head here to apply by 8th…

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Marino has recovered the fragments of this beautiful Samian vessel from a layer of sticky clay, within what appears to be an offshoot of Gloucester's #Roman city walls. Feast upon its beauty! #Archaeology #Gloucester #CASiteTeam @GloucesterCity

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In a small marshy stream in the middle of the #Pembrokeshire countryside, #CASiteTeam glimpsed this incredible #BronzeAge trough that after 3,000 years still looks better than most of us do after an hour in the bath. Read all about it here: #Archaeology 🛀

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This near-pristine Bronze Age spearhead is among the artefacts we’ve uncovered during the creation of a new wetland habitat in #Gloucestershire . This beauty is over 3,000 years old and was discovered just below the surface of a pit (1/3) #CASiteTeam #Cotswolds #Archaeology

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That unparalleled feeling of finding something, carefully prising it from the soil, and being the first person to see it in almost 2,000 years... This is a base sherd of pottery, dated by its fabric type to the early #Roman period. #Oxfordshire #Archaeology #CASiteTeam

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The middle #BronzeAge 'scutching knife' mentioned in Tuesday's post. Scutching knives were used for processing fibrous plants, such as flax and nettle, to make textiles. Bronze Age textile-processing evidence is relatively rare, making this tool particularly special #Archaeology

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This is it. It's really happening. 𝙏𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙏𝙚𝙖𝙢 𝙞𝙨 𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙚'𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙞𝙩!!! #CASiteTeam and #TimeTeam together with old friends, new faces, and the latest technology, have investigated a huge #Roman villa in #Oxfordshire on the estate of a Tudor castle! (1/3)

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#HappyNewYear !🎆🎉🥂 Welcoming in 2021 is this Iceni issue, gold, quarter stater of the Snettisham wreath type, dating to 50 BC–AD 10. It's an extremely rare variety - only one other example is known with the elaborately styled horse #12DOAC #Archaeology

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This impressive #Roman coffin had three iron bands around it, indicating that the lead had been a liner for a wooden coffin which had rotted away. These were expensive items, used for the burial of high-status individuals #Archaeology #FridayFind #CASiteTeam #Gloucestershire

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3 years

Lots of requests for info on the beautiful beaker in yesterday's recruitment ad! It's a funnel necked, #Roman , Lower Nene Valley colour coated ware; with a trailed white slip (‘en barbotine’) decoration of vines (swirls) and grapes ('blobs'). More here:

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Look at this beauty! 👀 Gorgeous decoration and so well preserved, it's an early #medieval , leather, knife sheath. Top-right is a remnant of the strap that would originally have held it onto a belt. Lovingly held here by Post-Excavation Archaeologist, Andy. #Bristol #Archaeology

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On the 9th Day of Christmas we gifted you something incredible - a #BronzeAge shield. Only the 24th of its type, it was badly damaged and very corroded, but dating (1300-1125 BC) and typing (Yetholm) were still possible 🎁 #Archaeology #Oxfordshire #12DOAC

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We've just been reminded of the time Hazel made one of the most remarkable archaeological discoveries yet seen in #Bath , when she uncovered a hoard of almost 17,600 #Roman coins. The collection, known as The Beau Street Hoard, is now on display at @RomanBathsBath 👌 #Archaeology

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This pit revealed a #BronzeAge log ladder, hewn from a single piece of oak; a tankard-sized vessel made of stitched bark; and a wooden 'scutching knife', for processing plant fibres. The amazingly well-preserved ladder had been used to access the pit floor #CASiteTeam #Tewkesbury

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Erm... So we've found a bone road... 😬👍 Liam and #CASiteTeam have been out at a 1700s #Oxfordshire manor house, sited over a Cisterian Abbey founded in the 1100s. Stripping back the topsoil, they weren't expecting to find an 80m trench of highly compacted animal bone... 1/2

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This Anglo Saxon hanging bowl, skilfully raised from just a single sheet of bronze, would've been made in a Celtic kingdom to the north or west of these isles in the early 7th century. (1/3) #AngloSaxon #Archaeology #Suffolk #EastAnglia #CASiteTeam #FridayFind

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Sorry, should probably have mentioned, that was the tile kiln (14th century), and so is this.

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In testament to the outstanding engineering capabilities of the Romans: A #Roman well, apparently still doing exactly what it was designed for. Stone-lined. Flooded. Frozen. We politely request to come back to this one in about... April time..?🍹 #CASiteTeam #Archaeology #January

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#Neolithic microdenticulates – little prehistoric plant-processing blades. They both have traces of ‘sickle gloss’ which incredibly, after all these thousands of years, shows they were used on cereals and grasses. Info in our #VirtualMuseum : #Archaeology

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We’ve found something completely unique! — not just the ceramic building material that shows Brandiers may’ve been making tiles believed to’ve been produced elsewhere, but a whole new #Roman tile stamp, *never seen before*…! #RewritingHistory #Archaeology #BrandiersKilnProject

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This beautiful #Roman brooch once featured rings of enamel in three contrasting colours. Sadly, we can only imagine how eye-catching and covetable it would have been! Enjoy a #3D model in our #VirtualMuseum , here:

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Uncovered in the grave of a high-status #Roman female, this comb appears to have been placed as an intentional fragment. Was it all that remained of a family heirloom? Or perhaps deliberately broken off, to remain in use within her family or community? #Archaeology #Oxfordshire

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Beautifully preserved #Roman Severn Valley Ware, from a ditch in #Herefordshire ; the context implied it may have been a ritual offering. Despite careful micro-excavation, sadly, any ancient remains had not survived. It was likely used for drinking or serving food🍺🥜 #Archaeology

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Sometimes in life, the little things really do make all the difference... #Prehistoric #Archaeology #CASiteTeam #POsWhoDig #BeMoreField

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A quick refresher of *that* #Roman cupid, fresh from the ground. Our conservators now have it in their excited little paws and there's a satisfying 'clean up' video coming incredibly soon... (More info here: ) #Archaeology #Gloucestershire #CASiteTeam

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4 years

A copper-alloy scale set, from the grave of a high-status, #AngloSaxon man. Analysis of the skeletal material, together with stable isotope analysis, will provide insights into the origins, lives and status of the site's historic population #Archaeology #FridayFind #Oxfordshire

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A #Roman radiate of Gallienus, dating to 253-268AD. The reverse (which isn't in the photo) is of an antelope and the legend Dianae Cons Avg! Freshly uncovered in #Wiltshire by #CASiteTeam 's Katherine, and modelled here by the hands of the lucky Rebecca #Archaeology #CATeam

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4 years

Immaculately preserved, two-pedestalled firing chamber of a #Roman pottery kiln. The kiln-geeks tell us this is a variation on the regionally well-known, single-flued ‘Wattisfield-type’. The rest of us thought it was someone stuck boot-sole up, in a hole... #CASiteTeam #Suffolk

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Appropriately discovered at a fen-edge site in #Suffolk , this charming #Roman plate brooch was shaped as a little duck. The coloured enamel represents a technique called champlevé, in which vitreous enamel is produced by fusing powdered coloured glass, or mixing glass with a��

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"No Mum, it's brilliant being back on site! Yeah, everything's fine... No, the weather's great..." 😌 #OhHelloJanuary #CASiteTeam #BalenciagaHiVisEatYerHeartOut #Archaeology

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1/2 Ben and Steve have uncovered this little food vessel in the central grave of one of those incredible #BronzeAge barrows. It’s a #Yorkshire type, which is rare in the south (maybe the north-south divide is older than we think…); ones with handles are rarer still. #Archaeology

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We've got some proper old-fashioned, heart-stopping, jaw-dropping #archaeology ! Steve and his team are out at Netherhampton, #Wiltshire , where they've revealed yet more of the county's incredible #prehistoric burial landscape... (1/3 – definitely a thread!)

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5 years

A striking #AngloSaxon , timber-framed building, uncovered during previous works in #Cheltenham . It was quite large - 11m long and 6m wide, with evidence of a porch. Pottery recovered from the postholes (up to 0.7m wide..!) helped us to date the structure. #Archaeology #CASiteTeam

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On the 5th Day... Not a partridge in a pear tree, but a duck in a finds box! This gorgeous #Roman brooch was found at the Fen Edge in #Suffolk . Waterfowl were thought to represent honesty, simplicity, and resourcefulness 🦆 Read more: #Archaeology #12DOAC

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Become an archaeologist they said... It'll be fun they said... #IsItTimeForThePubYet 🍹 #CASiteTeam #Heroes #Archaeology #RealArchaeology #BeMoreField

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We've just released details of our #HS2 excavation at Fleet Marston, uncovering the largest #Roman cemetery in #Buckinghamshire , with 425 burials. We can now characterise the Roman town and study its former inhabitants. More here: #Archaeology @oatweet

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Today's gift in our #Archaeology 12 Days of #Christmas is this exquisite little #Roman inkwell. It dates to the cusp of the 1st and 2nd centuries AD, and is the only one of its type to be found in Britain outside of London. Read more at the link: #12DOAC

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5 years

For those who didn't get copies of The #Roman Rural Settlement Project trilogy, 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙞𝙩 𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙙 𝙤𝙪𝙩.... Parts I & II can now be downloaded, free, from @ADS_Update Part I: Part II: Please spread the word! #Archaeology

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Fantastic #Roman vessel, as it was, fresh out of the ground at one of our #Oxfordshire sites! It's a large, funnel necked beaker, with a white slip decoration and roller-stamped decorative bands. It's a Lower Nene Valley type, dating to the 4th century AD #Archaeology #CASiteTeam

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It's #FridayFind , so your #Archaeology fix is extra special. This #AngloSaxon sword comes from the grave of an adult; it had been placed on their left side. This incredible site revealed a number of high-status Anglo Saxon and #Roman burials. We'll share more info in the future..

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A #Roman lead casket, from a settlement site with significant funerary activity. The lead is a lining material for what would have been a wooden coffin - fragments of vitrified wood were identified, and associated coffin nails recovered #Archaeology #FridayFind #CASiteTeam

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Knee-deep in mud, on the assumed line of the #Roman 'Glevum to Abonae' road, #CASiteTeam have uncovered a potential Roman road-side inn with an impressive cobbled courtyard, and a collection of #IronAge and Roman finds...: #Gloucester #Bristol #Archaeology

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Need something to read while you grapple with a cold, grey, January morning? Details of the #BronzeAge shield #CASiteTeam uncovered in #Oxfordshire have been published in #Oxoniensia . Gaze upon the shield's allure, then click to read more: ☕️

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11 months

If you're as blown away by the Netherhampton #BronzeAge barrow cemetery as we are, come to our next #webinar , Wednesday 19th July at 7.15pm, where the team will explain the site and what we know so far. Register here: #Archaeology #ArchaeologyForAll

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#CASiteTeam 's Joe has uncovered this intact #Roman quern stone. It appears to've been purposefully placed in a late 1st - 2nd century pit, cut into an enclosure ditch. The site lies close to a Roman settlement, so we hope to share more discoveries soon! #Archaeology #Wiltshire

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Burnt pits filled with fired flint are an enigmatic feature of eastern-England #AngloSaxon settlements. They're usually undated by finds and occur too infrequently to represent everyday activity. So what were they for? Our #Suffolk team think they may know

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A #Roman 'crossbow' brooch, just found on site. 4th century date. The purplish corrosion suggests it may be at least partially silver. If so, we'll need to declare it as treasure and will enlist a conservator to analyse the brooch so we can determine the next steps. #Archaeology

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More tile desecration… We’ve started extending Trench 1 (AKA the Kiln Trench) and Jack’s immediately spotted this stunner — a #Roman hobnail boot print. Even Peter’s pleased, because it’s pretty rare to find these on civilian sites 👍 #BrandiersKilnProject

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We've uncovered an #IronAge farmstead and the important cremation burial of a #BronzeAge child, containing a rare eagle-bone pin, along with roundhouses and evidence for textile manufacture in #Oxfordshire . More in Jo's article: @OxfordshireCC #Archaeology

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Behold! The epic Vaynor #Henge ! 🤩 Created in the late #Neolithic and uncovered by #CASiteTeam in the #BreconBeacons , its rock-cut ditches are 8m wide and up to 3.4m deep! Large postholes on the inside of the ditches may have supported posts or standing stones #Archaeology #Wales

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7 years

Not often we get such a close connection with a past so long-distant! Lower Palaeolithic handaxe, recently found near Portsmouth, Hampshire

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2 years

Something's sort of weird about the new Supervisor... Can't quite put our finger on what it is... 🧐 #HasAnybodySeenTheHammer #CASiteTeam #CAFrightTeam #HappyHalloween 🎃👻🔨🦇

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#CASiteTeam have just uncovered this Penannular brooch, from a #Gloucestershire site! It's a large brooch, with vaguely zoomorphic terminals (with ear-like protuberances which contain enamel settings). Date range is 4th-7th century AD. #EarlyMedieval #Archaeology #FridayFind

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Look at these beauties. Just. look. at. them. 👀 From an #Oxfordshire site, these leaf-shaped arrowheads were last used (as far as we know...) during the Early #Neolithic (4000-3350 BC), and are in much better condition after all this time than we are at the end of a long week 👌

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This 3rd-4th century #Roman dish was perfectly placed on the base of a wide ditch, suggesting it was deliberately deposited. It's of a form that's common in the #Gloucestershire Severn Vale, but its positioning and preservation make it a noteworthy find. #Archaeology #CASiteTeam

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(1/3) Two significant artefacts recovered from our #Burwell site — an 1/8 Anna coin and armorial signet ring. It’s common to find foreign coins in Britain but, with its Persian inscriptions, this 1/8 Anna had a long trek from where it was struck, near Kolkata, India… #FridayFind

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A likely 2nd century AD plate brooch – one of the earliest findings from our #Roman settlement site. We can't see yet whether it's enamelled, although it probably is. Once the Finds Team have analysed this, we'll let you know the details! #Gloucestershire #CASiteTeam #Archaeology

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Excavations in #Wiltshire have revealed a later #IronAge settlement. This included clusters of small pits and larger storage pits, a number of which contained crouched human burials. Others contained ritual or special deposits, including this dog burial #Archaeology #CASiteTeam

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Stunning aerial shot of excavations in #Hertfordshire , which revealed a lost #prehistoric and #Roman landscape. Infilled boundary ditches enclose ancient fields and paddocks. The dark area was once a shallow pond, subsequently filled with rich, Roman domestic rubbish #Archaeology

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Expertly recovered by Ben and Steve, meticulously microexcavated by Gemma, this beautiful little Yorkshire vessel hails from our Netherhampton site near Salisbury. In a #BronzeAge funerary landscape of over 30 ring ditches, this was nestled near the burial of a Beaker child.…

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While excavating a site 2.5km to the north of the Roman town of Alchester (considered to have been the principal Roman settlement in #Oxfordshire ), #CASiteTeam have uncovered a settlement that spans the Middle #IronAge to early #Roman periods #Archaeology

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Since it's Monday and the trends are a tad depressing we thought we'd treat you to some close-ups of the stunning #Boxford2019 mosaic... Hopefully this will brighten your feeds! At worst, at least you're not an unsuccessful suitor for Hippodomeia... #Roman #Archaeology #Berkshire

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A rare and poignant find, from excavations in #Gloucester - a lidded lead urn, containing the cremated remains of a single adult male, aged over 35 years at the time of his death. Just 30 or so similar vessels are known in Britain. #Gloucester #Roman #Archaeology #CASiteTeam

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#CASiteTeam recovered the base of this samian cup during works in #Cirencester ( #Roman Corinium). It includes the maker’s stamp of the potter Solinus, who is known to have worked at the production site at Lezoux, Central Gaul, c. AD 170-200 #Archaeology

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Stunning #drone photographs, from our #Hampshire site, perfectly display the fantastic archaeology we've uncovered - a whole Bronze Age barrow cemetery with an associated mortuary enclosure, as well as finds and several other ritualistic features! #Britisharchaeology #CASiteTeam

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Fragment of a Samian bowl, imported from Gaul. Although worn, the decoration shows a border of ovolo design and panels below - one with a standing figure, possibly female. Such vessels were imported between the late-1st and 3rd centuries AD #CASiteTeam #Oxfordshire #Archaeology

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With a barrow burial-cemetery and a 73-strong stakehole circle, our fourth #AndoverIs10 project is an absolute showpiece for the aerial beauty of #Beaker and #BronzeAge archaeology (1/3) #Hampshire #Prehistoric #Archaeology #CAAndoverIs10 🎉

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Friday's gold-gilt plate brooch originated from a site with well over 70 #AngloSaxon burials, many of which were high-status. 7 pairs were found in 7 separate graves, either positioned on each shoulder or adjacent on the left shoulder, with an associated clothing pin #Archaeology

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Time Team is back! And our CEO Neil Holbrook is returning as Archaeological Supervisor, leading the #Roman villa dig at Broughton Castle!! Check out the full 'Dig Watch' video: or skip to 11:30 and prepare to swoon... #TooExcited #TimeTeam @theTimeTeam

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This week’s #FridayFind is undoubtedly going to Joao, who uncovered this perfect #Neolithic axe in #Bedfordshire . This nearly 6,000-year-old beauty is aging exceptionally well, and still polished to a finish far beyond functional need 👌 #Prehistoric #Archaeology #CASiteTeam

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5 years

This week's #FridayFind is not in fact a £1 charity shop offering, it's actually an #AngloSaxon glass bowl! Fragmented on discovery, it was painstakingly recovered during Exercise Shallow Grave, and now reconstructed by Finds Officer, Katie #OpNightingale #CASiteTeam #Archaeology

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5 years

Oh, hello you...! 👀 A gorgeous #Roman 'reduced coarse ware' vessel, as it was freshly discovered by #CASiteTeam during works in central #Gloucester . It most likely dates to the mid 1st - 2nd centuries AD. What a day brightener! #Archaeology #Gloucestershire #GreatFind

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9 months

Bit of #AngloSaxon gold to brighten up Tuesday! Publications Officer Chris Fern will be giving a webinar on the incredible #StaffordshireHoard , why and how it ended up in the heart of Mercia, and who may have buried it... Get your ticket here: #Archaeology

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10 months

Will’s the Man of the Moment right now — he’s uncovered this big, largely intact #Roman box flue tile in Trench 2’s clay extraction pit, and dug out all the sherds he could find. Cassie and The Finds Team have had a good go at a reconstruction! #BrandiersKilnProject #Archaeology

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2 years

Fresh from the ground, here's a rather lovely example of a TPFP stamp on a #Roman tegula roof tile from Trench 3 at the #BrandiersKilnProject . There are six different known dies for this stamp, but who knows.....we may even discover some stamps we haven't seen before🤔🧐

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2 years

A small selection of the images taken by our Illustrators Aleks and Lucy, when they photographed hundreds of exquisite artefacts for the #StaffordshireHoard artefact catalogue. These items are absolutely, mind-blowingly, beautiful... (1/3) #AngloSaxon #Archaeology #FridayFind

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7 years

Have you heard? We found a stunning #Roman #mosaic at Roman Boxford 2017. Measuring over 6m in length, its design is based on Greek Legends!

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1 year

How exquisite is this brooch? Forged in copper alloy in the earliest part of the British #Roman period, it’s a ‘Mackreth’s Aesica’. It was found in a Roman ditch — imagine the heartache at losing it! Info in our #VirtualMuseum : #Fancy #Archaeology #CA_VM

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4 years

#CASiteTeam have identified a long-lost #medieval friary in #Gloucester ! Founded in 1270, over around 300 years 'Whitefriars' produced some notable friars. Guess where we found it? Under a car park... Bit of a cliché, we know... 😌 Full story: #Archaeology

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4 years

It's Monday, so here's a bit of a mood booster! - This is a #Roman spoon, made from copper alloy, recovered by #CASiteTeam during works in #Wiltshire . It's pear-shaped - a type that appears to have been in production by the first half of the 2nd century AD. #Archaeology

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5 years

However badly you may think your week has started, just know it's not going as badly as Sara's... #RealArchaeology #CASiteTeam #BailOut

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1 year

You might remember this rare #Roman Cupid figurine we discovered in 2020, working on the A417 in #Gloucestershire , as well as an array of coins, Roman jewellery, #prehistoric features, and a sobering WWII artefact with a link to helping Jewish people flee Nazi Germany (Thread...)

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5 years

This week's #FridayFind is these attractive #medieval tiles, recovered from a #Gloucestershire moat. The tile centre-left of the photo, featuring a barrel, is very similar to an example found in a design at Hailes Abbey. More pics when they're cleaned up! #Archaeology #CASiteTeam

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3 years

At our #Roman settlement site - the stone foundation wall of a building, likely one of many ancillary buildings of the main villa complex. This archaeologist is revealing a potential Roman buried soil, which survives within the building at a higher level #CASiteTeam #Archaeology

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2 years

Did the Romans love a seafood dinner and a sea view..? We reckon they did! At a #Devon coastal site, #CASiteTeam found a huge quantity of oyster shell and signs that the #Roman occupiers positioned their home at the best angle for those views: #Archaeology

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1 year

Fifteen years after the #Suffolk team excavated the RAF Lakenheath burials, the results of these important cemetery sites are about to be published. The burials made international headlines when an #AngloSaxon man was discovered buried with his bridled horse... (1/2) #Archaeology

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